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Ubuntu's BulletProofX Takes Simpler Step Forward
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| Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was a feature known as BulletProofX, which provides
| a fail-safe mode that is by default used when the X server fails to properly
| initialize. In this original implementation, it would default back to using
| the VESA display driver with 256 colors and then proceed to run the
| displayconfig-gtk utility. While this is nice for the end-user as it keeps
| them from touching a terminal to debug an X server problem, for experienced
| users it inhibits them from easily debugging the problem. This Canonical
| implementation also had frustrated other users. However, with the forthcoming
| Ubuntu 8.10 release, it has received some much-needed improvements while
| making BulletProofX more simple.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_bulletproofx_2&num=1
Recent:
What’s behind GregKH’s (latest) Rant?
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| Some missing numbers…
|
| I dug up a few numbers that Greg missed.
|
| * Worldwide Employees
| o Canonical: < 200
| o Red Hat: ~2200
| o Novell: ~4100
| o IBM: 386,558
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http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/whats-behind-gregkhs-latest-rant/
If not Google, which corporation best champions open source?
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| So who might replace it?
|
| * IBM, which has more open source projects out there than anyone else?
| * Red Hat, which offers the leading Linux distribution?
| * Canonical, which is so public in its support of desktop Linux through
| Ubuntu?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2904
In defense of Ubuntu
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| Criticisms of the Ubuntu distribution and Canonical, its corporate sponsor,
| are not hard to come by. Depending on who is speaking, Ubuntu and Canonical
| are guilty of profiting from the free software community without giving back
| to it, forking important projects or distributions, legitimizing the use of
| binary-only system components, and more. Of all of these gripes, it is
| the "contributing to the community" complaint which is heard most. If one
| believes these complaints, Ubuntu is a parasitic operation which does not
| understand how the community works and which is harmful to the community as a
| whole.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/294542/
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